The second instalment of Light Movement will be a solo screening from Berlin's own Ute Aurand, from original 16mm prints from the filmmakers archive.The films of Ute Aurand are something of a journey into the cinematic resonance which she manages to capture and extend in her filming and editing. Being influenced at an early stage in her career by the work of Jonas Mekas, her films seems to immediately celebrate life, both through what they portray and through the energy and flow of movement coming from the screen itself. A sense of spontaneity remains throughout, even when studies with the lens are more focussed and sustained on their visual investigations. The focus is on the everyday, although there is always a looking out and beyond in the shots and choices of subject, which is often dedicated to friends, sometimes strangers, always with a warm affection and sensitivity to the human spirit in things, balanced by a determined dedication to the constant development of rhythm and the crafting of formally significant impressions.We are very happy to welcome Ute Aurand in person to indroduce the work.

TO BE HERE (2013) is the final part of Aurands trilogy of recent films focussed on her travels, along with INDIA (2005) filmed in Pune and JUNGE KIEFERN / YOUNG PINES (2011) filmed in Japan.

"The playful and poignant films of German filmmaker Ute Aurand, a key figure in Berlin’s experimental film scene since the 1980s, emerge from her intimate relationship with people and places. Drawing on traditions of the diary film, feminism and artisanal practices, her handcrafted 16mm films are filled with joy at the small details

of life – from observations of landscapes to friends filmed over many years. Her exuberant films reflect on memory as much as they celebrate the here and now."

(George Clark, Assistant Curator Film, Tate Modern)

Fadenspiele 3

Fadenspiele 3
The first film we will show is a collaboration between Ute Aurand and Detel Aurand.

"Colourful ribbons stretching between trees in the birch grove, white balls are dancing in the yellow rapeseed field, paper, wood and plastic forms are moving in surface and space. The film renders visible the transformation – we see how one emerges from the other and continually forms the new."
(Text from: Distribution Catalogue 2004, 50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)

Detel Aurand
Born 1958 in Frankfurt/M. Germany
Studied 1978 - 83 politics at the University of Berlin
Since 1984 she lives and works as a visual artist in Berlin
Between 1987 and 2004 Iceland became a second residence
1996 three month residency in New Mexico, USA
2009 residency in Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi